Oleg Kireyev

Oleg Kireyev is an internationally recognized musician. He is touring a lot, being in minds since long ago and being loved by people both locally and overseas. He posted his name on most innovative and provocative international jazz projects. His creative ideas are vast, from mainstream and ethno to jazz rock and world music. “Incredibly good, soft, enthusiastic, stylish and top notch”  that is what musical critics say about the voice of his saxophone.

August 06, 2008

August 06, 2008

Oleg's playing is a marvelous combination of styles,
incorporating a whole lot of players. I hear echoes of the
1920’s and John Coltrane combined with the unstructured
jazz. Bud Shank, musician , USA .

What's cool (to me, at least) about the result is how
unabashed the band is in swinging genuinely hard on chestnut
exotica like Puerto Rican-born Ellington trombonist Juan
Tizol's Caravan, which Kireyev turned to as an encore, and
seems born to blow, dervish-like. Howard Mandel, president
of the Jazz Journalists Association, USA

A Russian sax player with a reputation for hard swing and
high excitement... The Express and Star, GBR.

The musician performing looked like a priest of a strange
music patronizing God

Oleg's playing is a marvelous combination of styles,
incorporating a whole lot of players. I hear echoes of the
1920’s and John Coltrane combined with the unstructured
jazz. Bud Shank, musician , USA .

What's cool (to me, at least) about the result is how
unabashed the band is in swinging genuinely hard on chestnut
exotica like Puerto Rican-born Ellington trombonist Juan
Tizol's Caravan, which Kireyev turned to as an encore, and
seems born to blow, dervish-like. Howard Mandel, president
of the Jazz Journalists Association, USA

A Russian sax player with a reputation for hard swing and
high excitement... The Express and Star, GBR.

The musician performing looked like a priest of a strange
music patronizing God. Through all the night his eyes were
shining with that fire of a man who totally devoted himself to
the deed beloved. OpenMusic magazine, Russia.

The tenor saxophonist from Ufa in the Urals is establishing a
reputation as an entertaining and skilled musician...
Revolutionary Russian reedman Oleg Kireyev... The Evening
Mail, GBR.

The saxophonist employs his broad and brazen tone as an
authoritative voice that floats in the wind. His is a
mesmerizing, sensuous voice, sometimes throaty
like Coleman Hawkins, and at other times husky, seductive
and hypnotic as big Ben Webster. And he plays with a kind of
fluidity that few can, his fingers rippling across the keys as he
creates rhapsodic flowing ideas that twist and turn flying forth
and then returning anew. Raul D'Gama Rose, AllAboutJazz,
USA.

Kirevey saxophone's mouthpiece is a constant, woody
presence - the frayed edges of each note allowing you to
almost taste the filtering reed against your tongue Matt
Marshall, Jazzinside, USA.

Kireyev’s approach to this music is extraordinary, the way he
allows this instrument to breathe almost endows it with a life of
its own: the sax itself becomes the musician, not Kireyev, the
two subsuming into one. Tremendous: it’s a style that draws
the listener deeper into the music. Alex Torres, Sea of
Tranquility.

When it come to lascivious tenor, the Russian Oleg Kireyev
is your man. He doesn’t just whisper in your ear, he says
very seductive and rather rude things. He slides around the
instrument in deeply suggestive fashion. It’s hard to resist.
Thejazzbreakfast.wordpress.com, GBR.